The hilarious Samantha Bee — whose new late-night show Full Frontal, the first ever to be hosted by a woman, premiered last night — brings us what I’ll call the Nike Theory of Increasing Diversity: just fucking do it.

In sharp contrast to other late night shows, which are seemingly incapable of hiring more than one or two women or people of color, Full Frontal‘s writing room is 50 percent women and 30 percent of color. Bee recently explained her secret:

“In the entertainment industry in particular, there are seminars and … work groups about creating diversity when, really, the fucking thing you have to do is just hire people. It’s not really the most complicated transaction. Find ...

The hilarious Samantha Bee — whose new late-night show Full Frontal, the first ever to be hosted by a woman, premiered last night — brings us what I’ll call the Nike Theory of Increasing Diversity: just fucking ...

On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, Senator Claire McCaskill issued a reminder to men: “The world doesn’t need your opinion on everything.”

In the video, McCaskill — one of the just 20 women in the Senate — says that while it’s important to encourage more women to run for office, “it’s equally important to encourage more men to sometimes just shut the hell up.” First and foremost, the staunch defender of reproductive rights suggests — sending a pointed message to her male colleagues in Congress — that men should zip it when it comes to “what women do with their bodies.”

Other things on her list of things women no longer need to hear men’s opinions on include: selfies, Shonda Rhimes, all ...

On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, Senator Claire McCaskill issued a reminder to men: “The world doesn’t need your opinion on everything.”

Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl teamed up with the Make It Work campaign to produce this PSA on the gender pay gap. The video stars Anika Noni Rose and Gabriel Mann and four lemonade-selling kids, who are not buying the justifications for unequal pay offered by reps from corporate America.

As Rae explains in an editorial at The Root, the campaign is aiming the pay gap a major issue in the 2016 election: “Start asking the people running for office tough questions about the wage gap and what they’ll do to ensure that we all have more equal workplaces.” Because, despite how tempting it can be to blame ourselves, the burden for ...

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